Co-Creation Lab: Destill & Plant

Short Description

The development of a "Co-Creation Lab" to strengthen the city center, its small businesses and retailers. This lab should foster out-of-the-box thinking for city revitalisation and awareness raising for new and innovative ideas of Creative Industries, as well as helping traditional key-players to familiarise and adjust to unknown approaches by a “touch and feel” process.

AIM

To provide a platform and methodologies to bring new ideas in the city centre and to support new collaboration between small businesses, retailers and Creative Industries.

Implementation Steps

1. Engage: learn from each other/ about stakeholders

2. Understand: define needs & goals, facilitate communication

3. Ideate: brainstorming, prioritising ideas/ storyboards, rapid prototypes

4. Validate: present, test, evaluate

Opportunities

• Visibility of available businesses, services & creativity 
• Promote settlement of retail & small businesses
• Improve liveability & attractiveness of the city

Challenges

• How to foster out-of-the-box thinking for city revitalisation
• Sustainable establishment of platform
• Develop adjusted co-creation methodology